| Revision as of 20:38, 19 January 2006 view sourceFriday (talk | contribs)19,776 editsm Reverted edits by 169.204.109.130 (talk) to last version by Wiki alf← Previous edit | Revision as of 22:35, 19 January 2006 view source Sinead ate your baby (talk | contribs)3 editsNo edit summaryNext edit → | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ===Life as a Dick=== | |||
| :''For other uses of the name Abraham Lincoln, see ]'' | |||
| As a young lad, my <font size=7 color=red>balls</font> were often <font size=7 color=green>larger</font> than all the other boys. I like to touch my groin and moan to myself 'cause Ms. Callahan only wants <font size=7 color=brown>MONKEY SEX</font>. It's a very sad ordeal, really. I can't offer her any <font size=7 color=brown>MONKEY SEX</font>. After all, I'm not a Monkey. I've been called many things, such as a <font size=7 color=yellow>'freak in the sheets'</font>, but never a monkey. It's a damned shame. Soooo...<font size=7 color=red>who wants to twist my PENIS</font>? | |||
| {{Infobox_President | name=Abraham Lincoln | |||
| | nationality=American | |||
| | image=Lincoln.jpg | |||
| | order=16th President | |||
| | term_start=], ] | |||
| | term_end=], ] | |||
| | predecessor=] | |||
| | successor=] | |||
| | birth_date=], ] | |||
| | birth_place=] (now in ]) | |||
| | death_date=], ] | |||
| | death_place=] | |||
| | spouse=] | |||
| | party=] | |||
| | vicepresident=] (1861 to 1865); ] (March - April 1865) | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Abraham Lincoln''' (], ] – ], ]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ] (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the ]. | |||
| Lincoln was a great enemy of what he saw as the ] and staunchly opposed its efforts to expand ] into federal territories. His victory in the ] further polarized an already divided nation. Before his ] in March of 1861, seven ] ]s ]] from the ], formed the ], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the ]. | |||
| Lincoln is often praised for his work as a wartime leader who proved adept at balancing competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. Lincoln had to negotiate between ] and Moderate Republican leaders, who were often far apart on the issues, while attempting to win support from ] and loyalists in the seceding states. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to victory over the ]. | |||
| His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in 1862, in his many speeches and writings which helped mobilize and inspire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the ]. ] vehemently criticized him for violating the Constitution, overstepping the bounds of executive power, refusing to compromise on slavery, declaring ], suspending ], ordering the arrest of thousands of public officials and a number of newspaper publishers, and killing hundreds of thousands of young men. ] criticized him for going too slow on abolition of slavery, and not being ruthless enough toward the conquered South. | |||
| Lincoln is most famous for his roles in preserving the Union and ending ] in the United States with the ] and the ]. However, some abolitionists criticized him for only freeing the slaves under the Confederacy in 1863, and waiting until 1865 to free slaves held in the Union. Others claim that the Emancipation Proclamation was merely a populist stunt intended to cause insurrection in the South. | |||
| Some historians also argue that Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institutions, importantly setting a precedent for greater centralization of powers in the federal government and the weakening of the powers of the individual ]s. | |||
| This claim, however, is disputed as the federal government largely reverted to its former weakness after ] and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the ] some seventy years later. | |||
| Lincoln spent most of his attention on military matters and politics but with his strong support his administration established the current system of ]s with the ]. He increased the ] to raise revenue and encourage factories, imposed the first ], issued hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds and Greenbacks, encouraged immigration from Europe, built the ], set up ], encouraged farm ownership with the ] of 1862, and set up the modern system of state universities with the ]. During the war his Treasury department effectively controlled all cotton trade in the occupied South--the most dramatic incursion of federal controls on the economy. During his administration ] and ] were admitted as states. | |||
| Lincoln is usually ]. Because of his roles in destroying slavery, redefining national values, and saving the Union, his ] made him a ] to millions of Americans. | |||
| ==Early life== | |||
| Abraham Lincoln was born on ], ], in a one-room ] on a 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the Southeast part of ], then considered the ] (now part of ], in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of ]), to ] and ]. Lincoln was named after his deceased grandfather, who was ] in 1786 in an Indian raid. He had no middle name. Lincoln's parents were uneducated, illiterate farmers. When Lincoln became famous, reporters and storytellers often exaggerated the poverty and obscurity of his birth. However Lincoln's father Thomas was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the Kentucky backcountry. He had purchased the ] in December 1808 for $200 cash and assumption of a debt. His parents belonged to a Baptist church that had pulled away from a larger church because they refused to support slavery. From a very young age, Lincoln was exposed to anti-slavery sentiment. However he never joined his parents' church, or any other church, and as a youth ridiculed religion. | |||
| Three years after purchasing the property, a prior land claim filed in Hardin Circuit Court forced the Lincolns to move. Thomas continued legal action until he lost the case in 1815. Legal expenses contributed to family difficulties. In 1811, they were able to lease 30 acres (0.1 km²) of a 230 acre (0.9 km²) farm on Knob Creek a few miles away, where they then moved. In a valley of the ], this was some of the best farmland in the area. At this time, Lincoln's father was a respected community member and a successful farmer and carpenter. Lincoln's earliest recollections are from this farm. In 1815, another claimant sought to eject the family from the ]. Frustrated with litigation and lack of security provided by Kentucky courts, Thomas decided to move to ], which had been surveyed by the federal government, making land titles more secure. It is possible that these episodes motivated Abraham to later learn surveying and become an attorney. | |||
| In 1816, when Lincoln was seven years old, he and his parents moved to ], he would state "partly on account of slavery" and partly because of economic difficulties in Kentucky. In 1818 Lincoln's mother died of "milk sickness" at age thirty four, when Abe was nine. Soon afterwards, Lincoln's father remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah Lincoln raised young Lincoln like one of her own children. Years later she compared Lincoln to her own son, saying "Both were good boys, but I must say — both now being dead that Abe was the best boy I ever saw or ever expect to see." (''Lincoln'', by David Herbert Donald, 1995) | |||
| In 1830, after more economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land on a site selected by Lincoln's father in ]. The following winter was especially brutal, and the family nearly moved back to Indiana. When his father relocated the family to a nearby site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, ]ing down the Sangamon to ] (now in ]), in the village of ]. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman ] and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to ] via ] on the Sangamon, ] and ] ]s. While in New Orleans, he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. Whether he actually witnessed a slave auction at that time or not, living in a country with a considerable slave presence, he probably saw similar atrocities from time to time. | |||
| His formal education consisted of perhaps 18 months of schooling from itinerant teachers. In effect he was self-educated, studying every book he could borrow. He mastered the Bible, Shakespeare, English history and American history, and developed a plain style that puzzled audiences more used to orotund oratory. He avoided hunting and fishing because he did not like killing animals even for food and, though unusually tall and strong, spent so much time reading that some neighbors thought he must be doing it to avoid strenuous manual labor. He was skilled with an axe—they called him the "rail splitter"—and a good wrestler. | |||
| ] | |||
| ==Early career== | |||
| Lincoln began his political career in 1832 at the age of 23 with a campaign for the ] as a member of the ]. The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigational improvements on the ] in the hopes of attracting ] traffic to the river, which would allow sparsely populated, poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. He served as a captain in a company of the ] ] drawn from New Salem during the ], although he never saw combat. He wrote after being elected by his peers that he had not had "any such success in life which gave him so much satisfaction." | |||
| He later tried and failed at several small-time business ventures. He held an Illinois state ] license and sold whiskey. Finally, after coming across the second volume of ]'s four-volume '']'', he taught himself the ], and was admitted to the ] in 1837. That same year, he moved to ] and began to practice law with ]. He became one of the most highly respected and successful lawyers in the prairie state, and grew steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in the ], as a representative from ], beginning in 1834. He became a leader of the Whig party in the legislature. In 1837 he made his first protest against slavery in the Illinois House, stating that the institution was "founded on both injustice and bad policy." | |||
| Lincoln shared a bed with ] from 1837 to 1841 in Springfield. While many claim it was not uncommon in the mid-19th century for men to share a bed (just as two men today may share a house or an apartment), ]'s 2005 biography, '']'', suggested their relationship may also have been sexual, which has generated a great deal of controversy. However, even when Lincoln was bitterly reviled for any number of faults by many enemies during the Civil War, not one ever suggested he had ever engaged in homosexual activities. | |||
| In 1841 Lincoln entered law practice with ], a fellow Whig. In 1856 both men joined the fledgling ]. Following Lincoln's assassination, Herndon began collecting stories about Lincoln from those who knew him in central Illinois, eventually publishing a book, ''Herndon's Lincoln''. Lincoln never joined an antislavery society and denied he supported the abolitionists. He married into a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky, and allowed his children to spend time there surrounded by slaves. Several of his in-laws became Confederate officers. He greatly admired the science that flourished in New England, and was perhaps the only father in Illinois at the time to send his son, ], to elite eastern schools, ] and ]. | |||
| ==Marriage== | |||
| On ], ], at the age of 33, Lincoln married ]. The couple had four sons. | |||
| *]: b. ], ], in Springfield, Illinois; d. ], ], in ]. | |||
| *Edward Baker Lincoln: b. ], ], in Springfield, Illinois; d. ], ], in Springfield, Illinois. | |||
| *William Wallace Lincoln: b. ], ], in Springfield, Illinois; d. ], ], in Washington, D.C. | |||
| *Thomas "Tad" Lincoln: b. ], ], in Springfield, Illinois; d. ], ], in ]. | |||
| Only Robert survived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only ] had any children (two: Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith). Neither Robert Beckwith nor Mary Beckwith had any children, so Abraham Lincoln's bloodline ended when Robert Beckwith (Lincoln's great-grandson) died on ], ]. | |||
| ==Illinois politics== | |||
| ] | |||
| In 1846 Lincoln was elected to one term in the ]. A staunch Whig, Lincoln often referred to party leader ] as his political idol. As a freshman House member, Lincoln was not a particularly powerful or influential figure in Congress. He used his office as an opportunity to speak out against the ] with ], which he attributed to ]'s desire for "military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood." | |||
| Lincoln was a key early supporter of ]'s candidacy for the ]. When Lincoln's term ended, the incoming Taylor administration offered him the governorship of remote ]. Acceptance would end his career in the fast-growing state of Illinois, so he declined. Returning instead to ] he turned most of his energies to making a living at the ], which involved extensive travel on horseback from county to county. | |||
| ==Prairie lawyer== | |||
| By the mid-], Lincoln faced competing transportation interests — both the river ]s and the ]s. In 1849, he received a patent related to buoying vessels. Lincoln represented the ] in an 1851 dispute with one of its shareholders, ]. Barret had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to that corporation on the grounds that it had changed its originally planned route. Lincoln argued that as a matter of law a corporation is not bound by its original charter when that charter can be amended in the public interest, that the newer proposed Alton & Sangamon route was superior and less expensive, and that accordingly the corporation had a right to sue Mr. Barret for his delinquent payment. He won this case, and the decision by the ] was eventually cited by several other courts throughout the United States. | |||
| Another important example of Lincoln's skills as a railroad lawyer was a lawsuit over a tax exemption that the state granted to the ]. ] argued that the state had no authority to grant such an exemption, and it sought to impose taxes on the railroad notwithstanding. In January 1856, the Illinois Supreme Court delivered its opinion upholding the tax exemption, accepting Lincoln's arguments. | |||
| Lincoln's most notable criminal trial came in 1858 when he defended ], who was on trial for the murder of ]. The case is famous for Lincoln's use of ], a rare tactic at that time, to show an eyewitness had lied on the stand, claiming he witnessed the crime in the moonlight. Lincoln produced a ] to show that the moon on that date was at such a low angle it could not have produced enough illumination to see anything clearly. Based upon this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted. | |||
| ==Republican politics 1854-1860== | |||
| The ] of 1854, which expressly repealed the limits on slavery's spread that had been part of the ] of 1820, drew Lincoln back into politics. | |||
| Illinois Democrat ], the most powerful man in the Senate, proposed ] as the solution to the slavery impasse, incorporating it into the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Douglas argued that in a democracy the people of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery or not, and not have a decision imposed on them by Congress. | |||
| It was a speech against Kansas-Nebraska, on ], ] in ], that caused Lincoln to stand out among the other ] orators of the day. He helped form the new Republican party, drawing on remnants of the old Whig, ], Liberty and Democratic parties. | |||
| In a stirring campaign, the Republicans carried Illinois in 1854, and elected a senator. Lincoln was the obvious choice, but to keep party unity he allowed the election to go to his colleague ]. | |||
| In 1857-58 Douglas broke with President ], leading to a terrific fight for control of the Democratic party. Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas in 1858, since he led the opposition to the administration's push for the ] which would have admitted Kansas as a ]. Accepting the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered a famous speech in which he stated, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion due to slavery, and rallied Republicans across the north. | |||
| The 1858 campaign featured the ], a nationally noticed discussion on the issues that threatened to split the nation in two. Lincoln forced Douglas to propose his ], which lost him further support among slave-holders and speeded the division of the ]. Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats and the legislature reelected Douglas to the Senate (this was before the ] prescribed popular vote for Senate seats). Nevertheless, Lincoln's eloquence transformed him into a national political star. | |||
| ==Election of 1860== | |||
| ] | |||
| Entering the presidential nomination process as a distinct underdog, Lincoln was eventually chosen as the Republican candidate for the ] for several reasons. His expressed views on slavery were seen as more moderate than rivals ] and ]. His "western" origins also appealed to the newer states. Other contenders, especially those with more governmental experience, had acquired enemies within the party, specifically Seward, who had run afoul of newspaperman ]. During the campaign, Lincoln was dubbed "The Rail Splitter" by Republicans to emphasize the power of "free labor," whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts. | |||
| On ], ], Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States, beating Democrat Douglas, ] of the Southern Democrats, and ] of the new ]. Lincoln was the first Republican president. He won entirely on the strength of his support in the North: he was not even on the ballot in nine states in the South — and won only 2 of 996 counties there. Lincoln gained 1,865,908 votes (39.9% of the total,) for 180 electoral votes, Douglas 1,380,202 (29.5%) for 12 electoral votes, Breckenridge 848,019 (18.1%) for 72 electoral votes, and Bell 590,901 (12.5%) for 39 electoral votes. There were fusion tickets in some states, but even if his opponents had combined in every state, Lincoln had a majority vote in all but two of the states in which he won the electoral votes, and would still have won the electoral college and the election. | |||
| ==Secession winter 1860-61== | |||
| As Lincoln's election became more and more probable secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the Union. South Carolina took the lead followed by six other ]-growing states: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The upper South (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to and rejected the secessionist appeal. They decided to stay in the Union, though warning Lincoln they would not support an invasion through their territory. The seven Confederate states seceded before Lincoln took office, forming an entirely new nation, the ]. President Buchanan and president-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy. | |||
| President-elect Lincoln survived an ] threat in Baltimore, and on February 23, 1861 arrived in disguise in Washington. At Lincoln's inauguration on ], ], the ] formed Lincoln's bodyguard; and a sizable garrison of federal troops was also present, ready to protect the capital from Confederate invasion or insurrection from Confederates in the capital city. | |||
| ] | |||
| In his ] Address, Lincoln declared, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments", arguing further that the purpose of the ] was "to form a more perfect union" than the ] which were ''explicitly'' perpetual, and thus the Constitution too was perpetual. He asked rhetorically that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of all parties to rescind it? | |||
| Also in his inaugural address, in a final attempt to unite the Union and prevent the looming war, Lincoln supported the proposed ] to the constitution, of which he had been a driving force. It would have explicitly protected slavery in those states in which it already existed, and had already passed both houses. Lincoln adamantly opposed the ], however, which would have permitted slavery in the territories, renewing the boundary set by the ] and extending it to ]. Despite support for this compromise among some Republicans, Lincoln declared that were the Crittenden Compromise accepted, it "would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and ]." | |||
| Because opposition to slavery expansion was the key issue uniting the Republican Party at the time, Lincoln is sometimes criticized for putting politics ahead of the national interest in refusing any compromise allowing the expansion of slavery. Supporters of Lincoln, however, point out that he did not oppose slavery because he was a Republican, but became a Republican because of his opposition to the expansion of slavery, that he opposed several other Republicans who were in favor of compromise, and that he clearly thought his course of action was in the national interest. By the time Lincoln took office the Confederacy was an established fact and not a single leader of that country ever proposed rejoining the USA on any terms. No compromise was found because no compromise was possible. Lincoln perhaps could have allowed the southern states to secede, and some Republicans recommended that. However conservative Democratic nationalists, such as ], ], and ] had taken control of Buchanan's cabinet around January 1, 1861, and refused to accept secession. Lincoln, and nearly all Republican leaders, adopted this nationalistic position by March, 1861: the Union could not be broken. | |||
| ==War begins: 1861-62== | |||
| After Union troops at ] were fired on and forced to surrender in April, Lincoln called on governors of every state to send 75,000 troops to recapture forts, protect the capital, and "preserve the Union", which in his view still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states. Virginia, which had repeatedly warned Lincoln it would not allow an invasion of its territory or join an attack on another state, now seceded, along with North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware did not secede, and Lincoln urgently negotiated with state leaders there promising not to interfere with slavery in loyal states. | |||
| ==Emancipation Proclamation== | |||
| ] draft on ], ].]] | |||
| {{Further|], ]}} | |||
| Congess in July 1862 moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act. It provided: | |||
| :That if any person shall hereafter incite, set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid or comfort thereto, or shall engage in, or give aid and comfort to, any such existing rebellion or insurrection, and be convicted thereof, such person shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by the liberation of all his slaves, if any he have; or by both of said punishments, at the discretion of the court. | |||
| :.... | |||
| :SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the government of the United States; and all slaves of such person found on being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude, and not again held as slaves. | |||
| Thus everyone who 60 days after ], ] supported the rebellion was to be punished by having all their slaves freed. The goal was to weaken the rebellion, which was led and controlled by slave owners. This did not abolish the legal institution of slavery (the XIII Amendment did that), but it shows Lincoln had the support of (and was even somewhat pushed by) Congress in liberating the slaves owned by rebels. Lincoln implemented the new law by his "Emancipation Proclamation." | |||
| Lincoln is well known for ending slavery in the United States and he personally opposed slavery as a profound moral evil not in accord with the principle of equality asserted in the ]. Yet, Lincoln's views of the role of the federal government on the subject of slavery are more complicated. Before the Confederate states seceded, Lincoln had campaigned against the expansion of slavery into the ], where Congress did have authority. However, he maintained that the federal government could not constitutionally bar slavery in states where it already existed. During his presidency, Lincoln made it clear that the North was fighting the war to preserve the Union, not to abolish slavery. Freeing the slaves was a war measure to weaken the rebellion by destroying the economic base of its leadership class. Lincoln was criticized both at home and abroad for his refusal to take a stand for the complete abolition of slavery. On ], ], a few weeks before signing the Proclamation, and after it had already been drafted, Lincoln responded by letter to an editorial by ] of the '']'' which had urged abolition: | |||
| :I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. | |||
| :I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. | |||
| With the ] issued in two parts on ], ] and ], ], Lincoln made the abolition of slavery a goal of the war. Lincoln addresses the issue of his consistency (or lack thereof) between his earlier position and his later position on emancipation in an 1864 letter to ] | |||
| Lincoln is often credited with freeing enslaved ] with the ]. However, border states that still allowed slavery but were under Union control were exempt from the emancipation because they were not covered under any war measures. The proclamation on its first day, ], ], freed only a few escaped slaves, but as Union armies advanced south more and more slaves were liberated until hundreds of thousands were freed (exactly how many is unknown). Lincoln signed the Proclamation as a wartime measure, insisting that only the outbreak of war gave constitutional power to the President to free slaves in states where it already existed. He later said: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." The proclamation made abolishing slavery in the rebel states an official war goal and it became the impetus for the enactment of the ] to the ] which abolished slavery; Lincoln was one of the main promoters of that amendment. Politically, the Emancipation Proclamation did much to help the Northern cause; Lincoln's strong ] stand finally convinced the ] and other foreign countries that they could not support the ]. This move remains one of the great seizures of private property by the federal government. Lincoln did not initially have as a goal making negroes equal under the law to whites. Lincoln excerpt from the ]: | |||
| :I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races --that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior. I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say, upon the occasion, I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the black should be denied everything. | |||
| Lincoln had for some time been working on plans to set up ] in Africa and South America for the nearly 4 million newly freed slaves. He remarked upon colonization favorably in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed. These attempts were in accordance with his earlier view that whites and blacks could never live together in complete harmony. | |||
| ==Important domestic measures of Lincoln's first term== | |||
| ].]] | |||
| Lincoln believed in the Whig theory of the presidency, which left Congress to write the laws. He signed them, vetoing only bills that threatened his war powers. Thus he signed the ] in 1862, making available millions of acres of government-held land in the west for purchase at very low cost. The ], also signed in 1862, provided government grants for ] in each state. The most important legislation involved money matters, including the first income tax and higher tariffs. Most important was the creation of the system of national banks by the ]s of 1863, 1864 and 1865. They allowed the creation of a strong national financial system. | |||
| Lincoln sent a senior general to put down the "]" of August 1862 in ]. Presented with 303 death warrants for convicted ] who had massacred innocent farmers, Lincoln affirmed 39 of these for execution (one was later reprieved). | |||
| ==1864 election and second inauguration== | |||
| After Union victories at ], ] and ] in 1863, many in the North believed that victory was soon to come after Lincoln appointed ] General-in-Chief on ], ]. Although no president since ] had been elected to a second term (and none since ] had been re-nominated), Lincoln's re-election was considered a certainty. | |||
| However, when the spring campaigns, east and west, all turned into bloody stalemates, Northern morale dipped and Lincoln seemed less likely to be re-nominated. ] ] strongly desired the Republican nomination and was working hard to win it, while ] was nominated by a breakoff group of radical Republicans, potentially taking away crucial votes in the November elections. | |||
| Fearing he might lose the election, Lincoln wrote out and signed the following pledge, but did not show it to his cabinet, asking them each to sign the sealed envelope. Lincoln wrote: | |||
| :This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards. | |||
| The Democrats, hoping to make setbacks in the war a top campaign issue, waited until late summer to nominate a candidate. Their platform was heavily influenced by the ] of the party, calling the war a "failure," but their candidate, former General ], was a ], determined to prosecute the war until the Union was restored, although willing to compromise on all other issues, including slavery. | |||
| McClellan's candidacy was soon undercut as on ], just two days after the ], ] was abandoned by the Confederate army. Coming on the heels of ] capture of ] and followed by ] crushing victory over ] army at ], it was now apparent that the tide had turned in favor of the Union and that Lincoln may be reelected despite the costs of the war. | |||
| Still, Lincoln believed that he would win the ] by only a slim margin, failing to give him the ] he'd need if he was to push his lenient ] plan. To his surprise, Lincoln ended up winning all but two states, capturing 212 of 233 electoral votes. | |||
| After Lincoln's election, on ], ], he delivered his ], which was his favorite of all his speeches. At this time, a victory over the rebels was within sight, ] had effectively ended, and Lincoln was looking to the future. | |||
| :Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether" | |||
| :With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. | |||
| ==Civil War and reconstruction== | |||
| ===Conducting the war effort=== | |||
| The war was a source of constant frustration for the president, and it occupied nearly all of his time. Lincoln had a contentious relationship with General ], who became general-in-chief of all the Union armies in the wake of the embarrassing Union defeat at the ] and after the retirement of ] in late 1861. Lincoln wished to take an active part in planning the war strategy despite his inexperience in military affairs. Lincoln's strategic priorities were two-fold: first, to ensure that Washington, D.C., was well-defended; and second, to conduct an aggressive war effort in hopes of ending the war quickly and appeasing the Northern public and press, who pushed for an offensive war. McClellan, a youthful ] graduate and railroad executive called back to military service, took a more cautious approach. McClellan took several months to plan and execute his ], which involved capturing ] by moving the ] by boat to the ] between the ] and ]. McClellan's delay irritated Lincoln, as did McClellan's insistence that no troops were needed to defend Washington, D.C. Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops to defend the capital, a decision McClellan blamed for the ultimate failure of his Peninsula Campaign. | |||
| McClellan, a lifelong ] who was temperamentally conservative, was relieved as general-in-chief after releasing his '']'', where he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort. McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint fellow Republican ] as head of the new ]. Pope complied with Lincoln's strategic desire for the Union to move towards Richmond from the north, thus guarding Washington, D.C. However, Pope was soundly defeated at the ] during the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac back into the defenses of Washington for a second time. Pope was sent to Minnesota to fight the ]. | |||
| Panicked by Confederate General ]'s invasion of ], Lincoln restored McClellan to command of all forces around Washington in time for the ] in September 1862. It was the Union victory in that battle that allowed Lincoln to release his Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln relieved McClellan of command shortly after the 1862 midterm elections and appointed Republican ] to head the Army of the Potomac, who promised to follow through on Lincoln's strategic vision for an aggressive offensive against Lee and Richmond. After Burnside was stunningly defeated at ], ] was given command, despite his idle talk about becoming a military strong man. Hooker was routed by Lee at ] in May 1863 and also relieved of command. | |||
| After the Union victory at ], ] failure to pursue Lee, and months of inactivity for the Army of the Potomac, Lincoln decided to bring in a western general: General ]. He had a solid string of victories in the Western Theater, including ] and ]. Earlier, reacting to criticism of Grant, Lincoln was quoted as saying, "I cannot spare this man. He fights." Grant waged his bloody ] in 1864, using a strategy of a ], characterized by high Union losses at battles such as the ] and ], but by proportionately higher losses in the Confederate army. Grant's aggressive campaign would eventually bottle up Lee in the ] and result in the Union taking Richmond and bringing the war to a close in the spring of 1865. | |||
| Lincoln authorized Grant to use a ] approach to destroy the South's morale and economic ability to continue the war. This allowed Generals ] and ] to destroy farms and towns in the ], ], and ]. The damage in ] through Georgia totaled in excess of $100 million. | |||
| Lincoln had a star-crossed record as a military leader, possessing a keen understanding of strategic points (such as the ] and the fortress city of Vicksburg) and the importance of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing cities. However, he had little success in his efforts to motivate his generals to adopt his strategies. Eventually, he found in Grant a man who shared his vision of the war and was able to bring that vision to reality with his relentless pursuit of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters of war. | |||
| Lincoln, perhaps reflecting his lack of military experience, developed a keen curiosity with military campaigning during the war. He spent hours at the ] ] office, reading dispatches from his generals through many a night. He frequently visited battle sites and seemed fascinated by watching scenes of war. During ]'s ], in 1864, Lincoln had to be told to duck his head to avoid being shot observing the scenes of battle. | |||
| ===Homefront=== | |||
| Lincoln was more successful in giving the war meaning to Northern civilians through his oratorical skills. Despite his meager education and “backwoods” upbringing, Lincoln possessed an extraordinary command of the English language, as evidenced by the ], a speech dedicating a cemetery of Union soldiers from the ] that he delivered on November 19, 1863. While the featured speaker, orator ], spoke for two hours, Lincoln's few choice words resonated across the nation and across history, defying Lincoln's own prediction that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." Lincoln's ] is also greatly admired and often quoted. In these speeches, Lincoln articulated better than any of his contemporaries the rationale behind the Union effort. | |||
| During the Civil War, Lincoln exercised powers no previous president had wielded; he proclaimed a ], suspended the writ of ], spent money without ] authorization, and imprisoned thousands of accused Confederate sympathizers without trial. There is a fragment of uncorraborated evidence that Lincoln made contingency plans to arrest ] ], though the allegation remains unresolved and controversial (see the ] controversy). | |||
| The long war and the issue of emancipation appeared to be severely hampering his prospects and pessimists warned that defeat appeared likely. Lincoln ran under the Union party banner, composed of War Democrats and Republicans. General Grant was facing severe criticism for his conduct of the bloody ] that summer and the seemingly endless ]. However, the Union capture of the key railroad center of ] by Sherman's forces in September changed the situation dramatically and Lincoln was reelected. | |||
| ===Reconstruction=== | |||
| The ] of the Union weighed heavy on the President's mind throughout the war effort. He was determined to take a course that would not permanently alienate the former Confederate states, and throughout the war Lincoln urged speedy elections under generous terms in areas behind Union lines. This irritated congressional Republicans, who urged a more stringent Reconstruction policy. One of Lincoln's few vetoes during his term was of the ]l, an effort by congressional Republicans to impose harsher Reconstruction terms on the Confederate areas. Republicans in Congress retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from ], ], and ] during the war under Lincoln's generous terms. | |||
| "Let 'em up easy," he told his assembled military leaders ] (a future president), ] and ] in an 1865 meeting on the steamer ''River Queen''. When ], the Confederate capital, was at long last captured, Lincoln went there to make a public gesture of sitting at ]'s own desk, symbolically saying to the nation that the President of the United States held authority over the entire land. He was greeted at the city as a conquering hero by freed slaves, whose sentiments were epitomized by one admirer's quote, "I know I am free for I have seen the face of Father Abraham and have felt him." | |||
| On ], ], Confederate General ] surrendered at ] in ]. This left only ]'s forces in the East to deal with. Weeks later Johnston would defy Jefferson Davis and surrender his forces to Sherman. Of course, Lincoln would not survive to see the surrender of all Confederate forces; just five days after Lee surrendered, Lincoln was ]. He was the first President to be assassinated, and the third to die in office. | |||
| ==Assassination== | |||
| ], ], Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln, and Booth.]] | |||
| Lincoln had met frequently with Lt. Gen. ] as the war drew to a close. The two men planned matters of reconstruction, and it was evident to all that they held each other in high regard. During their last meeting, on ], ] (]), Lincoln invited Grant to a social engagement that evening. Grant declined (Grant's wife, ], is said to have strongly disliked ]). The President's eldest son, ], also turned down the invitation. | |||
| ], a well-known actor and Southern sympathizer from ], heard that the president and Mrs. Lincoln, along with the Grants, would be attending ]. Having failed in a plot to kidnap Lincoln earlier, Booth informed his co-conspirators of his intention to kill Lincoln. Others were assigned to assassinate ] ] and ] ]. | |||
| Without his ] ], to whom he related his famous ] of his own assassination, the Lincolns left to attend the play at Ford's Theater. The play, '']'', was a musical comedy by the British writer ]. As Lincoln sat in his state box in the balcony, Booth crept up behind the President's box and waited for the funniest line of the play, hoping the laughter would cover the gunshot noise. On stage, actor Harry Hawk said the last words Lincoln would ever hear "Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap...". When the laughter came Booth jumped into the box the president was in and aimed a single-shot, round-slug .44 ] ] at his head, firing at point-blank range. The bullet entered behind Lincoln's left ear and lodged behind his right eyeball. Major ], who was present in the Presidential Box, momentarily grappled with Booth but was severely stabbed and slashed by the assassin. It was believed that Booth then shouted "'']!''" (Latin: "Thus always to tyrants," the state motto of Virginia; some accounts say he added "The South is avenged!") and jumped from the balcony to the stage below, breaking his leg. Despite his injury, Booth managed to limp to his horse and to make his escape. | |||
| As Booth fled from the theater, a young physician, Dr. ], made his way through the audience to Lincoln's box. Leale quickly assessed the wound as mortal. The President was taken across the street from the theater to the ], where he lay in a coma for nine hours before he expired. Several physicians attended Lincoln, including U.S. Army Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes of the Army Medical Museum. Using a probe, Barnes located some fragments of Lincoln's skull and the ball lodged 6 inches inside his brain. Lincoln, who never regained consciousness, was officially pronounced dead at 7:22 A.M. the next morning, April 15, 1865. Upon his death, Secretary of War ] lamented "now he belongs to the ages." After Lincoln's body was returned to the ], his body was prepared for his "lying in state" in the ]. | |||
| The Army Medical Museum, now named the National Museum of Health and Medicine, has retained in its collection since the time of Lincolns's death, several artifacts relating to the assassination. Currently on display in the museum are the bullet that was fired from the Deringer pistol, ending Lincoln's life, the probe use by Barnes, pieces of his skull and hair and the surgeon's cuff, stained with Lincoln's blood. The museum can be found at | |||
| In 2004 a newly discovered from the estate of photographer, artist and engraver ], purportedly showing Lincoln but a few hours post mortem, was published in ]'s book ''Lincoln's Photographs: A Complete Album'' (Rockywood Press, Dayton, Ohio, 2004). If authentic, it is the only immediately post mortem photograph of the late president to be taken by Bachelder. | |||
| Secretary Seward, who was also attacked that night, did survive. He was not told of Lincoln's assassination, but on Monday announced from his bed that "the President is dead," after seeing the flag at half-staff over the War Department from his window, and concluding that since Lincoln had neither come to see how he was or sent someone to inquire that he must be dead. | |||
| Booth was hunted down by a military ] twelve days later and shot by ], near ], ]. Four co-conspirators were convicted and hanged, while three others were given life sentences. | |||
| ] | |||
| Lincoln's body was carried by train in a grand funeral procession through several states on its way back to Illinois. The nation mourned a man whom many viewed as the savior of the United States. He was buried in ] in Springfield, where a 177 foot (54 m) tall granite tomb surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln was constructed by 1874. To prevent repeated attempts to steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, Robert Todd Lincoln had Lincoln exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick on ], ]. | |||
| {{further|]}} | |||
| ==Legacy and memorials== | |||
| Lincoln's death made the President a ] to many. Today he is perhaps America's second most famous and beloved President after ]. Repeated polls of historians have ranked Lincoln as among the ]. Among contemporary admirers, Lincoln is usually seen as a figure who personifies classical values of honesty, integrity, as well as respect for individual and minority rights, and human freedom in general. Many American organizations of all purposes and agendas continue to cite his name and image, with interests ranging from the ] group ] to the ] corporation ]. The ] is also named after him. | |||
| ]'s seated ''Lincoln'' faces the ] to the east.]] | |||
| Over the years Lincoln has been memorialized in many city names, notably the ]; with the ] in ] (''pictured, right''); on the U.S. ] and the ] (Illinois is the primary opponent to the removal of the penny from circulation); and as part of the ]. ], ] in ], ] (a reconstruction of Lincoln's early adult hometown), ] and Petersen House are all preserved as museums. The ] for ] is ''Land of Lincoln''. | |||
| ] in 18 ]s (], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]) are named after Lincoln. | |||
| On ], ], Abraham Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a federal ] in the United States, although in 1971 it was combined with Washington's birthday in the form of ]. February 12 is still observed as a separate legal holiday in many states, including Illinois. | |||
| Lincoln's birthplace and family home are national historic memorials: ] in ] and ] in ]. The ] is also in Springfield. The ] is located in ]. | |||
| Statues of Lincoln can be found in other countries. In ], ], ], is a 13-foot high bronze statue, a gift from the United States, dedicated in 1966 by President ]. The U.S. received a statue of ] in exchange, which is in Washington, D.C. Juárez and Lincoln exchanged friendly letters, and Mexico remembers Lincoln's opposition to the ]. There is also a statue in ], Mexico, showing Lincoln standing and destroying the chains of slavery. There are at least three statues of Lincoln in the ]—one in ] by ], one in ] by ] and another in ] by ]. | |||
| The ] ] ] and the ] ] were named in his honor. Also, the ], ] was named to honor his mother. | |||
| Director ] is currently planning a movie on Lincoln with ] in the leading role. | |||
| The American ] feature an ] Abraham Lincoln in the show ] and the Hall of Presidents. | |||
| In a recent public vote entitled "]," Lincoln placed second. | |||
| To this day, comedians generally avoid jokes about Lincoln because audiences do not usually appreciate them. | |||
| Humorous shorts featured on the ] and Friends cartoon on G4TV portray Lincoln as someone who drinks too much. The shorts are called "Hard Drinkin' Lincoln," and at the end of every episode, Boothe is always shooting Abe. | |||
| ==Trivia== | |||
| * Lincoln stood 6'3 3/4" (192.4 cm) tall and thus was the tallest president in U.S. history, just edging out ] at 6'3 1/2" (191.8 cm). | |||
| * He was born on the same day as ]. | |||
| * The last surviving self-described witness to Lincoln's assassination was ] (~1860–], ]), who appeared two months before his death at age 96 on the ]-TV ] '']''. He said that as a five-year-old he had thought at first that he, himself, had been shot because his nurse, trying to fix a torn place in his blouse, stuck him with a pin at the moment of the gun's discharge. | |||
| * According to legend, Lincoln was referred to as "two-faced" by his opponent in the 1858 ] election, ]. Upon hearing about this Lincoln jokingly replied, "If I had another face to wear, do you really think I would be wearing this one?" | |||
| * According to legend, Lincoln also said, as a young man, on his appearance one day when looking in the mirror: "It's a fact, Abe! You are the ugliest man in the world. If ever I see a man uglier than you, I'm going to shoot him on the spot!" It would no doubt, he thought, be an act of mercy. | |||
| * Based on written descriptions of Lincoln, including the observations that he was much taller than most men of his day and had long limbs, an abnormally-shaped chest, and loose or lax joints, it has been conjectured since the 1960s that Lincoln may have suffered from ]. | |||
| *Lincoln was known to have a case of ]. During his time in New Salem, Illinois, his fiancee died, and that triggered his depression. His close friends watched over him to make sure he did not commit suicide. He also suffered from nightmares during his term in the ]. His depression got so severe, he had to hold a cabinet meeting from his bed. | |||
| ==Presidential appointments== | |||
| ===Cabinet=== | |||
| Lincoln was known for appointing his enemies and political rivals to high positions in his Cabinet. Not only did he use great political skill in reducing potential political opposition but he felt he was appointing the best qualified person for the good of the country. | |||
| {| class="wikitable" | |||
| |- | |||
| ! Office !! Name !! Term | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1864 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1864–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1862 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1862–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1864 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']'''||align="left"|1864–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1861–1864 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1864–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1865 | |||
| |- | |||
| | ] || ''']''' || 1861–1863 | |||
| |- | |||
| | || ''']''' || 1863–1865 | |||
| |} | |||
| <br clear="all"> | |||
| ===Supreme Court=== | |||
| Lincoln appointed the following Justices to the ]: | |||
| *] - 1862 | |||
| *] - 1862 | |||
| *] - 1862 | |||
| *] - 1863 | |||
| *] - ] - 1864 | |||
| ==Major presidential acts== | |||
| ;Involvement as President-elect | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| ;Enacted as President | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| *Established ] (1862) | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| *Signed ] | |||
| ==States admitted to the Union== | |||
| *] – ], ] | |||
| *] – ], ] | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| * Movies: '']'', '']'' | |||
| *] | |||
| *] with Abraham Lincoln in ] | |||
| *] with Abraham Lincoln in ] | |||
| ==References== | |||
| ==Scholarly secondary sources: Biographies== | |||
| *''Lincoln'' by ] (1999) ISBN 068482535X the best one-volume scholarly biography. | |||
| *, 200 pages; good biography by scholar | |||
| *''Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'' by Doris Kearns Goodwin ISBN 0684824906 (2005). Best-selling interpretation of Lincoln and his cabinet. For a critical evaluation of this biography, see the ] review by a Lincoln scholar with a background in American religious history: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_24_122/ai_n15898300#continue | |||
| * | |||
| *''Abraham Lincoln: a History'' (1890) by ] & ]; online at and 10 volumes in all; this is one of the great scholarly multivolume lives, written by AL's top aides. | |||
| *''The Real Abraham Lincoln'' by Reinhard H Luthin (1960). | |||
| *''The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia'' by Mark E. Neely (1984). | |||
| * ''The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America'' by Mark E. Neely (1993) | |||
| * ''With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln'' by Stephen B. Oates (1994). | |||
| *''The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln'' (1994) comprehensive study by Philip S. Paludan. | |||
| *''Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander-in-Chief'' by Geoffrey Perret ISBN 0375507388. A popular history. | |||
| *''Lincoln the President'' by James G. Randall (4 vol., 1945–55; reprint 2000.) | |||
| ** | |||
| *''Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years'' (2 vol 1926); ''The War Years'' (4 vol 1939) biography by ]. Pulitzer Prize | |||
| *; well-regarded biography of 500 pages | |||
| ==Scholarly secondary sources: Specialty topics== | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| *Boritt, Gabor S. ''Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream'' (1994). | |||
| *Boritt, Gabor S. ''Lincoln the War President'' (1994). | |||
| *Boritt, Gabor S., ed. ''The Historian's Lincoln.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. | |||
| * | |||
| *Donald, David Herbert. ''Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era'' (1960). | |||
| * | |||
| *Harris, William C. ''With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union'' (1997). | |||
| * | |||
| *Hofstadter, Richard. ''The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It'' (1948) ch 5: "Abraham Lincoln and the Self-MAde Myth". | |||
| *Holzer, Harold. ''Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President'' (2004). | |||
| * | |||
| *, standard scholarly history of era; Pulitzer Prize | |||
| *Morgenthau, Hans J., and David Hein. ''Essays on Lincoln's Faith and Politics''. Lanham, MD: University Press of America for the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 1983. | |||
| * Pulitzer Prize | |||
| *Paludan, Philip S. ''The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln'' (1994) comprehensive study | |||
| *''Lincoln in American Memory'' by Merrill D. Peterson, (1994). | |||
| *Randall, James G. ''Lincoln the Liberal Statesman'' (1947). | |||
| * | |||
| *''Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness'' by Joshua Wolf Shenk ISBN 0618551166 | |||
| *''The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln'' by C. A. Tripp ISBN 0743266390 | |||
| *''Lincoln'' by ] ISBN 0375708766, a novel. | |||
| *''Lincoln and His Generals'' by T. Harry Williams (1967). | |||
| *''Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America'' by Garry Wills ISBN 0671867423 | |||
| *''Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln'' by Douglas L. Wilson (1999). | |||
| ==Lincoln in art and popular culture== | |||
| * Bullard. F. Lauriston, ''Lincoln in Marble and Bronze'', Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1952 | |||
| * Mead, Fanklin B., ''Heroic Statues in Bronze of Abraham Lincoln: Introducing The Hoosier Youth by ]'', The Lincoln National Life Foundation, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1932 | |||
| * Moffatt, Frederick C., ''Errant Bronzes: ]'s Statues of Abraham Lincoln'', University of Deleware Press, Newark, DE 1998 | |||
| * Murry, Freeman Henry Morris, ''Emancipation anf the Freed in American Sculpture'', Books For Libraries Press, the Black Heritage Library Collection, Freeport, NY 1972 - originally published in 1916 | |||
| * Petz, Weldon, ''Michigan's Monumental Tributes to Abraham Lincoln'', Historical Society of Michigan 1987 | |||
| * Redway, Maurine Whorton and Dorothy Kendall Bracken, ''Marks of Lincoln on Our Land''. Hastings House, Publishers, New York 1957 | |||
| * Savage, Kirk, ''Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race War and Monument in Nineteenth Century America'', Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey 1997 | |||
| * Tice, George, ''Lincoln'', Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1984 | |||
| ==Primary Sources== | |||
| * Basler, Roy P. ed. ''Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln'' 9 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1953-55), the standard edition. | |||
| * excellent short edition. | |||
| * Lincoln, Abraham. ''Lincoln: Speeches and Writings'' 2 vol Library of America edition, (1989). | |||
| * Lincoln, Abraham. ''The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln'' (Modern Library Classics ed by Philip Van Doren Stern) (2000). | |||
| * (1850-1865) | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| {{commons|Abraham Lincoln}} | |||
| {{Wikisource author}}{{wikiquote}} | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * (1850-1865) | |||
| * | |||
| * - My Big Adventure (33 Images) | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * Washington, DC | |||
| * Fort Wayne, Indiana | |||
| * A national book award sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| * Patent -- ''Manner of Buoying Vessels'' -- A. Lincoln -- 1849 | |||
| * (an archive of articles on Lincoln) | |||
| * | |||
| * (includes good early history) | |||
| *Hoard Historical Museum in ] with Lincoln Library | |||
| * | |||
| * | |||
| ==Neoconfederate Criticisms of Lincoln== | |||
| * by Thomas J. DiLorenzo | |||
| * by Thomas J. DiLorenzo | |||
| *''The Real Lincoln'' by ] ISBN 0761526463, a stinging neo-Confederate attack on Lincoln as evil. | |||
| ==Documents at ]== | |||
| ====''by'' Abraham Lincoln==== | |||
| *Speeches and addresses | |||
| * {{gutenberg author| id=Abraham+Lincoln | name=Abraham Lincoln}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=4 | name=Gettysburg Address}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=9 | name=Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=8 | name=Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=8110 | name=Lincoln Letters}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=14721 | name=Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=5024 | name=State of the Union Addresses}} | |||
| *''The Writings of Abraham Lincoln'' | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2653 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 1: 1832-1843}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2654 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 2: 1843-1858}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2655 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 3: the Lincoln-Douglas debates}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2656 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 4: the Lincoln-Douglas debates}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2657 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 5: 1858-1862}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2658 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 6: 1862-1863}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2659 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 7: 1863-1865}} | |||
| *Miscellany | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=12462 | name=A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln}} | |||
| **{{gutenberg | no=2517 | name=Lincoln's Yarns and Stories}} | |||
| ====''about'' Lincoln==== | |||
| * and of ''Abraham Lincoln: a History'' (1890) by ] (1835 to 1905) & ] (1832 to 1901) | |||
| * (1907) by Nicolay, Helen (1866 to 1954) | |||
| * (1901) by Henry Ketcham | |||
| * and of ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1899) by John T. Morse | |||
| * (1913) by Francis Fisher Browne | |||
| * (1909) by George Haven Putnam, Litt. D. | |||
| * (1922) by Nathaniel W. Stephenson | |||
| {{start box}} | |||
| {{succession box | title=]| before=]| after=]| years=1847 – 1849}} | |||
| {{succession box | before=] | title=]| years=] (won), ] (won) | after=]}} | |||
| {{succession box | before=] | title=] | years=], ] – ], ]| after=]}} | |||
| {{end box}} | |||
| {{start box}} | |||
| {{USpresidents | before=] | after=]| years=1861 to 1865}} | |||
| {{end box}} | |||
| {{USRepPresNominees}} | |||
| {{Link FA|de}} | |||
| <!--categories for career--> | |||
| <!--categories for other accomplishments (broadly speaking)--> | |||
| <!--categories for biographical trivia--> | |||
| <!--self defined category--> | |||
| <!--links to other Wikipedias--> | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Revision as of 22:35, 19 January 2006
Life as a Dick
As a young lad, my balls were often larger than all the other boys. I like to touch my groin and moan to myself 'cause Ms. Callahan only wants MONKEY SEX. It's a very sad ordeal, really. I can't offer her any MONKEY SEX. After all, I'm not a Monkey. I've been called many things, such as a 'freak in the sheets', but never a monkey. It's a damned shame. Soooo...who wants to twist my PENIS?